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Indian and Buddhist Studies

Indian and Buddhist Studies is a research topic within Religious studies. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to Buddhist studies, including the history, culture, philosophy, and modernization of Buddhism in South and East Asia. It explores the influence of Buddhism on various aspects of society and its interaction with other religious and cultural traditions. The cluster also delves into the philosophical underpinnings of Buddhist thought and its impact on contemporary issues such as ethics, economics, and globalization.

  • Buddhism
  • South Asia
  • East Asia
  • History
  • Culture
  • Philosophy
  • Religion
  • Sanskrit
  • Tibetan Buddhism
  • Modernization
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+77%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Indian and Buddhist Studies

Which countries lead Indian and Buddhist Studies research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (1.7k and 937 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.7k works
  2. 2 United States 937 works
  3. 3 China 212 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 179 works
  5. 5 Germany 129 works
  6. 6 Japan 118 works
  7. 7 France 108 works
  8. 8 Canada 79 works
  9. 9 Russia 72 works
  10. 10 Nepal 65 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

India: 47.0%United States: 26.2%China: 5.9%United Kingdom: 5.0%6 others listed: 15.9%47%largest
India1,682 · 47.0%United States937 · 26.2%China212 · 5.9%United Kingdom179 · 5.0%6 others listed571 · 15.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Indian and Buddhist Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Align Technology (United States) publishes the most Indian and Buddhist Studies research, followed by University of California, Berkeley and Jamia Millia Islamia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Align Technology (United States)United States 73 works
  2. 2 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 55 works
  3. 3 Jamia Millia IslamiaIndia 52 works
  4. 4 University of DelhiIndia 50 works
  5. 5 Flame UniversityIndia 48 works
  6. 6 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 48 works
  7. 7 Elizabethtown CollegeUnited States 48 works
  8. 8 National Institute of Child HealthHungary 44 works
  9. 9 Universität HamburgGermany 42 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 39 works

What are the most cited papers in Indian and Buddhist Studies?

The most cited paper in Indian and Buddhist Studies is "A Meta-Analysis of Compassion-Based Interventions: Current State of Knowledge and Future Directions" (James N. Kirby, Cassandra L. Tellegen, Stanley R. Steindl, 2017), with 835 citations. Next come "For An Anthropology Of Ethics And Freedom" (626) and "Yoga for depression: The research evidence" (496).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Meta-Analysis of Compassion-Based Interventions: Current State of Knowledge and Future Directions James N. Kirby, Cassandra L. Tellegen, Stanley R. Steindl · Behavior Therapy Review 21 Jun 2017 835
2 For An Anthropology Of Ethics And Freedom James C. Laidlaw · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Jun 2002 626
3 Yoga for depression: The research evidence Karen Pilkington, Graham Kirkwood, Hagen Rampes et al. · Journal of Affective Disorders 27 Sep 2005 496
4 Hermeneutic phenomenological research method simplified Narayan Prasad Kafle · Bodhi An Interdisciplinary Journal Open access 6 May 2013 494
5 An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values, and Issues Peter Harvey · DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) 2000 468
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Indian and Buddhist Studies research done?

The largest centres of Indian and Buddhist Studies research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), Bengaluru (India), Pune (India) and Kolkata (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Elizabethtown and San Jose.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 197 works
  2. 2 BengaluruIndia 80 works
  3. 3 PuneIndia 76 works
  4. 4 KolkataIndia 76 works
  5. 5 San JoseUnited States 74 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 73 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 69 works
  8. 8 BudapestHungary 60 works
  9. 9 BerkeleyUnited States 56 works
  10. 10 BeijingChina 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ElizabethtownUS · 47.6 works813×
  2. San JoseUS · 74.2 works50×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Indian and Buddhist Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Indian and Buddhist Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Elizabethtown College, University of California, Berkeley and Universität Hamburg score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%50%100%mean 18%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Elizabethtown CollegeFlame UniversityUniversität HamburgUniversity of Califo…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Elizabethtown CollegeUnited States 96.892.1%854.2×48 +1197.7%
2University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 58.04.0%15.2×55 +256.7%
3Universität HamburgGermany 56.88.4%14.9×42 +559.9%
4Flame UniversityIndia 55.49.0%499.0×48 -
5University of DelhiIndia 55.16.2%19.2×50 +45.5%
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 55.011.9%6.1×33 +64.7%
7Weatherford CollegeUnited States 54.89.2%9.4×48 +561.0%
8Jamia Millia IslamiaIndia 52.51.0%53.3×52 +1602.9%
9Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 49.23.9%12.9×38 +300.0%
10Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific ResearchIndia 47.134.3%234.5×15 -

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Indian and Buddhist Studies, country by country

Is Indian and Buddhist Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 77% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Indian and Buddhist Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Indian and Buddhist Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Indian and Buddhist Studies0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Indian and Buddhist Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Indian and Buddhist Studies9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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